Yeywa Dam
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The Yeywa Hydropower Station, located on the Myitnge River, 52 kilometres southeast of Mandalay city, at Yeywa village in Kyaukse Township, Mandalay Region in central Myanmar, is the country's first r
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Four water intake
Inside the generation house
Francis turbine
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The Francis turbine is a type of water turbine. It is an inward-flow reaction turbine that combines radial and axial flow concepts. Francis turbines are the most common water turbine in use, and can a
Yeywa Dam
…of four water intakes, each consisting of 22-foot (6.7 m) diameter and 492-foot (150 m) long high-tensile steel pipe penstocks and four vertical-axis Francis turbines and generator units, alongside associated electro-mechanical and auxiliary equipment installed in an open-air powerhouse. Four water intake towers were…
Francis inlet scroll at the Grand Coulee Dam
Side-view cutaway of a vertical Francis turbine. Here water enters horizontally in a spiral-shaped pipe (spiral case) wrapped around the outside of the turbine's rotating runner and exits vertically down through the center of the turbine.
Pawtucket Gatehouse in Lowell, Massachusetts; site of the first Francis turbine
Francis Runner, Grand Coulee Dam